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Boris Zvorykin, folkloric hammer and sickle designs in the “Soviet Calendar for 1919”.
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Boris Zvorykin, folkloric hammer and sickle designs in the “Soviet Calendar for 1919”.
A crowd of valiant Bolsheviks perched on a newly seized British Whippet-tank belonging to Wrangel and his troops that the White Army obtained from England during the Russian Civil War because the British Empire wished to combat the peasant-and proletarian socialist seizure of power. Although it may not be entirely called a pure civil war as there were more than a dussin of interventionist armies that invaded the country from most of the bourgeois countries in the hope of trying to stop the intended construction of socialism and restore the autocratic Russian tsardom. I choose to call it a large-scale class war, as it all stemmed from that. Many outside countries were fully committed to doing everything possible, by all means necessary, in order to stop this enormous progress of the population taken by the Great October Revolution.
Imagine what it was like, and continue to be in different ways...
The photo is probably from 1920 or 1921.
The Lake County Times. Dec 13 1917
General Korniloff (left), map showing Cossack country in dark and General Kaledincs. The gradual spread of the power of the Cossacks indicates to many students of Russian affairs that the next government of the troubled ally will be in the hands of Generals Korniloff and Kaledines, Cossack leaders, who are in open revolt against the Bolsheviki.
Korniloff killed by a Soviet shell Apr 13 1918 In the face of Soviet victory, Kaledines committed suicide on Feb 11 1918
Albert Rhys Williams’ photographs of the Russian Civil War, in “Through the Russian Revolution”, New York: Boni and Liveright Publishers, 1921.
Sketches for posters for the third anniversary of the October revolution, 1920.
Soviet government authorities examining jewels and other rare valuables which the Romanovs were so generous as to provide, May 1923.
Bolshevik poster from the Russian Civil War, “From the fire of revolution, a Red guard rises to strike fear into the world bourgeoisie”, 1920.
“Lenin is dead but his work lives on”, ROSTA, 1924.